{"id":24898,"date":"2021-02-18T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/an-argument-against-celebrating-nigerias-ngozi-okonjo-iweala#id29136"},"modified":"2021-02-18T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:06:00","slug":"an-argument-against-celebrating-nigerias-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-becoming-the-head-of-the-world-trade-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/an-argument-against-celebrating-nigerias-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-becoming-the-head-of-the-world-trade-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"An argument against celebrating Nigeria\u2019s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becoming the head of the World Trade Organization."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In the decades since the end of formal colonialism, many Africans have learned (the hard way) that having leaders that look and sound like you matters little if they pursue policies that hurt most of your fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2021\/02\/black-faces-in-high-places\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Africa Is a Country<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/an-argument-against-celebrating-nigerias-ngozi-okonjo-iweala\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        In the decades since the end of formal colonialism, many Africans have learned (the hard way) that having leaders that look and sound like you matters little if they pursue policies that hurt most of your fellow citizens&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24899,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898\/revisions\/24899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}